Kindness Think Tank

Get ready to spice up your Sunday... This week, we're skipping across the pond to London to talk about sex with Andrea Balboni: Founder of Lush Coaching who's leading with heart and a heap of science to help people shed their sexual baggage and experience the joy and the fullness of their lives. Andrea talks with me about her personal Sex In The City journey from a repressed New England upbringing and to a tantric yoga class that transformed her life, opened her mind and led her to disc...

This week, we're popping across the pond to London for a chat with Ozlem Tuskan: Founder of The Resilient, single mum and a woman with enough resilience, kindness and soul for 100 people.Ozlem talks with me about her work with women founders that's disrupting the astounding inequity in VC funding, developing bold resilience, kindness and quantum physics, finding her voice and rockin' her badass leather pants. Her work has spanned many continents advising global players such as L’OREAL, ...

This week, we're heading over to Denver, CO to catch up with Dr. Elia Gourgouris, best known internationally as 'The Happiness Doctor'.He talks with me about the power of the personal 'brands" we inherit or adopt, the impact of social media on self worth, the magic of being real, the kindness-happiness connection and the projects he has underway to change TV and challenge Facebook.Dr. Elia Gourgouris is the president of The Happiness Center, an organization of world-leading experts in the fie...

This week, we're heading over to Portland, Oregon to hang out with Jody Turner: Futurist, Speaker, Insight Researcher on a mission to share bold ideas to preserve our planet.Jody talks with me about the trends she identified 20 years ago and why she's not surprised by where we are in time. We talk about her work that's guiding the evolution of major companies toward sustainability, meeting the future with pragmatism, kindness and looking ahead to 2050 with these two questions:"What are the fi...

This week, we're heading to Sydney, Australia to spend some time with Dr. Richard Harris: Surgeon, Author, Father, Visionary, Kind Soul. In 1971, John Lennon released his prolific and timeless song, Imagine. 50 years later, this vascular surgeon (from The Land Down Under) inspired by the possibilities John shared in his lyrics, became the author of Imagine, A Novel: an optimistic, thought provoking, utopian book about love, humanity, reason and real possibilities for a kinder worl...

This week, we're trekking up to Boston to catch up with the soulful, Michele Nevarez: Author, Emotional Intelligence Expert and the CEO of Beyond EI. Our conversation takes place just after the launch of her new venture, Beyond EI. Michele talks with me about her time in Nepal that informed her world views and her extensive EI work alongside Daniel Goleman and Dr. Richard Davidson that inspired her to go layers deeper into emotional intelligence. We talk about the intentional, relative ...

This week, we're heading up to New York City to spend a little time with Michael Roderick: Founder, Writer, Podcast Host, Dad and Urban Dweller. Michael talks with me about the freedom that comes from allowing yourself to suck, loneliness, "worshipping reach and ignoring depth" and the one tiny thing each of us can do everyday, to make the world a kinder place.Michael was a teacher and Broadway producer, before he dropped it all to become the Founder of Small Pond Enterprises. His work ...

This week, I'm heading an hour north of Toronto to hang out with the infectious and delightful Cathy Nesbitt: visionary, bean queen, worm harvester and laughter yoga coach. This episode is medicine for the soul. Cathy was way ahead of her time. She talks with me about worms: how she got turned onto them and then how they became her business in 2002 when the Toronto landfill shut down. We talk about the kindness of sustainability, life without a cell phone, entrepreneurship, her vision f...

This week we're doing a little globetrotting. We'll travel to Amsterdam, England, Norway, New Jersey and Austin, TX to hear kind highlights from EP 1-5, centered around two simple questions.You'll hear lessons from mallards, kindness' role in shaping the largest Porsche eSports community in England, a CEO's message about kind and profitable business, kindness as a survival tactic and the possibility kindness holds for healing our planet.If you like what you hear, please share some kindn...

Aloha! This week, I'm traveling to the good vibes state of Hawaii to spend some time with Brian Cunningham: Kind human, CEO and the author of the The Leadership Revolution: Because Evolution Takes Too Long and the groundbreaking book Our AQ: The Missing Link to Extraordinary Leadership and Life. Brian talks with me about the transformational power of desperation, his awareness journey that took shape like a 1980's autostereogram, bringing love into leadership and why understanding ...